Al-Farooq

Al-Farooq (also spelled El-Farouk, Al Farouk or Al-Faruq) may refer to:

People

• Umar, Muslim caliph and companion of Muhammad, known as Al-Faruq ("Distinguisher between truth and false")
• Farooqi and Farooq, surnames
• Al-Farouq Aminu, American basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers
• El-Farouk Khaki, Canadian lawyer
• Omar al-Faruq (1971–2006), Al-Qaeda member
• Farouk of Egypt

Places

• Al Farouk de Tombouctou, football (soccer) team in Mali
• Al Faruq (Riyadh), a neigbourhood of Rihadh, Saudi Arabia
• Al-Faruq Mosque, one of several mosques
• Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center, in Bloomington, Minnesota

Other uses

• Al-Farooq (book), biography of Umar by Shibli Nomani
• Al-Farooq (title)
• Farouq Brigades, a unit of the Free Syrian Army in the Syrian civil war

See also

• Farooq (disambiguation)
• Furqan (disambiguation)